‘Banjo Fred” Starner, an economics professor and banjo-playing folk singer who documented hobo music and culture, has died. He was 72. Starner, of Winnetka, died Oct. 25 at a West Hills rehabilitation ...

Hopping freights, eating mulligan stew around the fire barrel, late-night dancing in the hobo jungle to harmonica glitch funk and techno-blues – if the gasping economy births a new hobo culture, the ...

With a PhD in economics and a steady job teaching at a Los Angeles community college, California folk singer Fred Starner hardly fits most people’s idea of a hobo. But then, most folks don’t really ...

Feather River John lazily strummed his guitar in the back of a speeding Ford Ranchero, hat slung low to shield his eyes from the brilliant northern California sun. Beside him in the bed of the ...

His real name is Zebu Recchia, and at the age of nineteen, he left his hog-riding, bricklaying father in Denver behind to become a tramp. Though it’s hardly your usual 21st-century occupation, it ...